A Summary of the Principal Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the Christian Revelation: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Young Persons : to which is Added the Celebrated Poem on Death |
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... considered as a kind of recapitulation of the Evidences of Christianity , it may be found of some use to persons of a more mature age , by re- freshing their memories , and bringing back to their recollection those proofs of their ...
... considered as a kind of recapitulation of the Evidences of Christianity , it may be found of some use to persons of a more mature age , by re- freshing their memories , and bringing back to their recollection those proofs of their ...
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... considered by the whole Christian world from the Apostolic age , as con- taining a faithful history of their re- ligion , and therefore they ought to be received as such ; just as we allow the Koran to contain a genuine ac- count of the ...
... considered by the whole Christian world from the Apostolic age , as con- taining a faithful history of their re- ligion , and therefore they ought to be received as such ; just as we allow the Koran to contain a genuine ac- count of the ...
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... considered as the writings of those persons by the whole Jewish nation ( who were most interested in their authenticity , and most likely to know the truth ) from the earliest : times down to the present and no proof to PROPOSITION IV. ...
... considered as the writings of those persons by the whole Jewish nation ( who were most interested in their authenticity , and most likely to know the truth ) from the earliest : times down to the present and no proof to PROPOSITION IV. ...
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... greater than even that of rais- ing the dead . But admitting its ex- cellence ( which yet has been ques- tioned by several learned men ) if beauty of style and composition is to be considered as 80 THE TRUTH AND DIVINE ORIGIN.
... greater than even that of rais- ing the dead . But admitting its ex- cellence ( which yet has been ques- tioned by several learned men ) if beauty of style and composition is to be considered as 80 THE TRUTH AND DIVINE ORIGIN.
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... considered as a proof of divine in- spiration , the writings of Plato and Xenophon , of Cicero and Cæsar , and a multitude of other inimitable writers in various languages , will have as just a claim to a miraculous origin as the koran ...
... considered as a proof of divine in- spiration , the writings of Plato and Xenophon , of Cicero and Cæsar , and a multitude of other inimitable writers in various languages , will have as just a claim to a miraculous origin as the koran ...
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Page 15 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness; covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 107 - And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, 13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
Page 105 - Ye have a watch : go your way, make it as sure as ye can." So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Page 113 - Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole, be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Page 87 - And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 106 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake : for the Angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
Page 106 - And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye : for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here; for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
Page 118 - When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them ; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
Page 28 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
Page 56 - ... to do unto all men as we would they should do unto us...